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27-11-2021, 02:23 PM
Joyce Teo
Senior Health Correspondent
PUBLISHED 3 HOURS AGO
SINGAPORE - One of Singapore's trailblazing clinician scientists, Professor Wong Tien Yin, who is medical director of the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC), is forging a new path in Beijing, China, early next year.
Taking the road less travelled, as he is wont to do, he will become the founding head of Tsinghua Medicine, a new healthcare and medical sciences academy at Tsinghua University.
Prof Wong, 53, who is also SingHealth's deputy group chief executive for research and education as well as vice-dean of the office of academic and clinical development at Duke-NUS Medical School, hopes to inject a bit of Singapore know-how into China to help Tsinghua develop its own academic healthcare system.
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This involves developing clinician scientists, preparing medical students for future healthcare problems like ageing and for new healthcare technologies, and more.
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The former President's Scholar had failed to get a scholarship to do his PhD at Johns Hopkins University in the United States. He was told: "You're already a doctor, why do you need a PhD?"
Prof Wong has gone on to publish countless peer-reviewed papers in prestigious medical journals like The Lancet and Nature.
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His research has improved the world's understanding of the prevalence and risk factors of major eye diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration. He has devised screening and disease prevention strategies using telemedicine and innovative imaging.
For his work and leadership in developing clinician scientists, he was elected to the US National Academy of Medicine last year
More details at: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/h...in-china-0
Senior Health Correspondent
PUBLISHED 3 HOURS AGO
SINGAPORE - One of Singapore's trailblazing clinician scientists, Professor Wong Tien Yin, who is medical director of the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC), is forging a new path in Beijing, China, early next year.
Taking the road less travelled, as he is wont to do, he will become the founding head of Tsinghua Medicine, a new healthcare and medical sciences academy at Tsinghua University.
Prof Wong, 53, who is also SingHealth's deputy group chief executive for research and education as well as vice-dean of the office of academic and clinical development at Duke-NUS Medical School, hopes to inject a bit of Singapore know-how into China to help Tsinghua develop its own academic healthcare system.
......
This involves developing clinician scientists, preparing medical students for future healthcare problems like ageing and for new healthcare technologies, and more.
......
The former President's Scholar had failed to get a scholarship to do his PhD at Johns Hopkins University in the United States. He was told: "You're already a doctor, why do you need a PhD?"
Prof Wong has gone on to publish countless peer-reviewed papers in prestigious medical journals like The Lancet and Nature.
......
His research has improved the world's understanding of the prevalence and risk factors of major eye diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration. He has devised screening and disease prevention strategies using telemedicine and innovative imaging.
For his work and leadership in developing clinician scientists, he was elected to the US National Academy of Medicine last year
More details at: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/h...in-china-0
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